I was messing about recently with some stock images, harking back to the 90's when messy images were in short supply and manipulating images was better than nothing.
Wondered what you thought of these, I'm not really very good with photoshop so it was just for fun.
Fun stuff!! Would you mind posting the unmanipulated photo of the girl in the grey sweater getting pied in the bottom photo? I'd love to see the "before" shot, so to speak.
pieromaniac_too said: Fun stuff!! Would you mind posting the unmanipulated photo of the girl in the grey sweater getting pied in the bottom photo? I'd love to see the "before" shot, so to speak.
Thanks for the name check. And the compliment means a great deal.
Most of these are going back a decade or so now before I met Ginger D when being a content producer was simply 'pie in the sky'. A couple of these are actual paintings but all of them - even the ones created in Photoshop from dozens of fragments of images involved a lot of painting and blending in. Hilariously, I now know Photoshop to instructor level as a result of the expertise gained messing about doing this.
Still, doing a half decent job of this can eat up hundreds of hours (and that's just on the picture research) so the grand project I wanted to undertake with The WAM Enigma - a library of 'fake' WAM images is probably some years away. Especially as now I would rather devote my time to producing 'real' media.
pieromaniac_too said: Fun stuff!! Would you mind posting the unmanipulated photo of the girl in the grey sweater getting pied in the bottom photo? I'd love to see the "before" shot, so to speak.
Sure thing
Here's the girl in the grey sweater clean & Pied, side by side!!
As a person doing my own share of Photoshop manipulations, the first thing I saw was the different color tone of the pie compared to the photos you added it to. In most every one, the pie and tin had a lot of 'blue' hues to it, while the photo was warmer with more reds and yellow tones. To better illustrate what I'm talking about, I took the liberty of matching the tones on your first image. I also put a small shadow on her arm and top, cast by the pie blocking some of the light. Lastly, the face shows that there is more light coming from the left side, while the pie has more on the right side. I would have flipped the pie horizontally, so the lighting would be the same. Little things like this can make it look more real, but you did a great job anyhow.
Love the pie manipulation pics guy,s having dabbled in it for a while and still not good at it as it takes so long to perfect especially with an old photoshop prog as mine getting it right is an art form. Here,s one of my attempts ,must try harder.
Love you, too
